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The growing field of neurotherapeutics offers psychiatric patients new hope

Brain procedures help patients with treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions. But providers still grapple with ethical questions and the history of lobotomies

  • June 20, 2024
Annie’s Place at Parkland Health in Dallas, Texas, offers no-cost childcare for parents to attend medical appointments.
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Can providing childcare at hospitals improve health?

Patients miss appointments — and health care workers miss work — because there’s no one to watch the kids. New programs test how on-site childcare might help.

  • June 12, 2024
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Climate change hurts women more

Extreme weather is linked to pregnancy complications, increased violence, and inescapable exposure to pollution and heat.

  • June 6, 2024
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Medical schools work to end student mistreatment

From public humiliation to sexist remarks, medical trainees often experience faculty mistreatment. Here’s how institutions are working to stop bad behaviors.

  • June 4, 2024

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Attracting the next generation of physicians to rural medicine

People in rural areas sometimes travel hours for care. Academic medicine is attracting and training future physicians to meet desperate needs in these regions.

  • Feb. 3, 2020
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Applying to medical school can be expensive. AAMC’s Fee Assistance Program can help.

Aspiring doctors can save up to $2,000 in MCAT®, MCAT prep materials, and medical school application fees.

  • Jan. 27, 2020
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Today’s residents, by the numbers

The AAMC’s 2019 Report on Residents provides a data-based look at trends in test scores, specialties, and professional practices.

  • Jan. 5, 2020
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Our top 10 news stories of 2019

From the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital to insights into why many women leave medicine early in their careers, these are 2019’s top AAMCNews stories.

  • Dec. 29, 2019
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What every doctor needs to know about patient safety

The AAMC is releasing the first-ever, across-the-board set of skills physicians and trainees need to ensure safer, high-quality care. Here’s an inside look.

  • Nov. 4, 2019
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How well does the MCAT® exam predict success in medical school?

Researchers spent years studying thousands of students to assess the new MCAT® exam. Here are some of their key — and surprising —discoveries.

  • Sept. 20, 2019
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What happens when a teaching hospital closes?

AAMCNews talked to Janis Orlowski, MD, AAMC chief health care officer, about what the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital means for medical professionals.

  • July 12, 2019
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Making space for spirituality

Medical schools and teaching hospitals increasingly embrace students’ faith-based traditions.

  • June 25, 2019
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What can we learn from an epidemic?

AAMC Executive Vice President Atul Grover says we can use the lessons of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s to inform our work today around the opioid crisis.

  • June 11, 2019
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First time for everything

Residents and medical students discuss their firsts.

  • May 31, 2019